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Virginia lawmakers pass bill to seal some criminal records 02/26/2021 12:41pm • RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia lawmakers have approved legislation to allow people convicted of certain crimes to have their criminal records sealed. Supporters say the bill will help remove obstacles to obtaining jobs, housing, and education for thousands of Virginians. The legislation will DC attorney general joins call for fairness for certain low-level drug offenders seeking resentencing 02/22/2021 06:10pm • D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine is leading a coalition of fellow prosecutors who want to make sure that a relatively recent criminal justice reform law is applied more broadly to certain low-level drug offenders looking for new sentencing hearings. Racine is among 19 U.S. attorneys general, inc 2 Capitol rioters committed 'crimes of terrorism,' prosecutors say 02/19/2021 12:25pm • ▶ Watch Video: House holds hearing on domestic terrorism in the wake of Capitol siege At least two Capitol rioters may have committed "crimes of terrorism," prosecutors say, which is cause to hold them without bail as they await trial — and may mean longer sentences should they be fo Burmese actress goes into hiding as celebrities opposing Myanmar coup added to arrest list 02/18/2021 03:31am • Since "day one" of the military coup, Burmese actress Paing Phyo Thu -- one of the country's highest-paid stars -- says she has been on the streets opposing the ruling junta. One of Myamar's highest-paid actresses, she has been offering financial help to striking staff who have given up their job Bowser declares DC gun violence a public health crisis in new order 02/17/2021 01:21pm • Gun violence in D.C. is a public health crisis, Mayor Muriel Bowser said Wednesday, and she's forming an emergency operations center to combat it. "This is a level of violence that we haven't seen in more than a decade," Bowser said. "And the homicide trends are disturbing." "But we know that Md. delegate seeks to do away with qualified immunity for police officers 02/15/2021 08:33pm • This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. Several years ago, Makia Smith was dragged out of her car by her hair and placed under arrest. Her crime: video recording a police officer w Comparing Trump's two impeachment trials 02/14/2021 12:36am • WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump's first impeachment trial centered on a phone call Americans never heard with the leader of a country very far away. The trial went on for two weeks of he-said-she-said. There was a mountain of evidence to pore over but not one drop of blood to see. Trump's second Maryland bill would provide voting info to the incarcerated 02/13/2021 01:57am • Those incarcerated awaiting trial or convicted of misdemeanors would be able to register to vote and learn about their voting rights under legislation in the Maryland General Assembly this year. The Senate version of the bill, which was jointly referred to the Education, Health and Environmental Man charged with shooting guard at Virginia federal facility 02/12/2021 11:32am • According to court documents, William Douglas Rankin, 44, is alleged to have entered the Social Security Administration building in Norfolk on Feb. 8, armed with a .380 firearm, a 9 millimeter rifle, and approximately 600 rounds of ammunition, including three fully loaded extended 9 mm magazines. T Would 'super drunk' drivers in Va. be empowered by repealing mandatory minimum sentences? 02/12/2021 10:05am • As lawmakers in Virginia's General Assembly advance bills to eliminate mandatory minimum sentences for all but the most serious crimes, anti-drunk driving advocates fear a new law would empower the worst of the commonwealth's serial drunken drivers. "It's obviously part of a larger, sweeping cri Task force presents 80 changes to overhaul DC's justice system 02/11/2021 05:30pm • Two years after a group of dozens of D.C. community leaders took on a review of the city's jail system, it is making 80 "thoughtful and concrete" recommendations for major changes to improve the District's justice system. In her note at the top of the 80-page report, Shelley Broderick, the chair Man held in killing of Virginia woman found on I-80 in Pennsylvania 02/11/2021 09:33am • MILTON, Pa. (AP) — Police in Connecticut apprehended a Texas man wanted in the slaying of a Virginia woman whose body was found on Interstate 80 in Pennsylvania, officials said. State troopers said they arrested Tracy Rollins Jr., 28, of Dallas, on Wednesday at a truck stop in Southington, Conn Ex-Baltimore officer sentenced for lying about drug bust 02/09/2021 02:56pm • BALTIMORE (AP) — A former Baltimore police detective has been sentenced to just over a year in prison on charges he lied to federal agents about a scheme to sell drugs from a cocaine bust more than a decade ago. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland said former Baltimore pol DC bill would expand support for crime victims 02/09/2021 10:16am • A new bill aims to help victims of violent crime in D.C. both financially and emotionally. The Expanding Supports for Crime Victims Amendment Act of 2021 would expand eligibility for victim compensation, create new “crime victim advocates” for certain serious crimes and strengthen the Distric Maryland lawmakers eye repeal of law officers’ Bill of Rights 02/08/2021 01:38pm • BOWIE, Md. — A proposed law in the Maryland House of Delegates could roll back certain protections for law enforcement officers. HB0151, sponsored by Del. Gabriel Acevero, D-Montgomery, would fully repeal Maryland’s Law Enforcement Officers Bill of Rights. The law, which provides certain p